investigate stability of partial climate coalitions. Technology spillovers to coalition members increase their incentives to stay … in the coalition and reduce abatement costs, which leads to larger global payoffs and a lower global CO2 stock. Several …

by Greenberg (1989, 1990) to account for self-enforcing coalitional deviations. An agreement is stable if no coalition …

This paper considers the problem of standard-creating coalition formation in an oligopoly. Cooperative R&D investments … strength of network effects and the degree of product substitutability are weak, no stable standard coalition is feasible and … the grand coalition is the stable equilibrium, which is also socially optimal. In between these limits a multiple …

rationality under a certain condition, and well balances the trade-off between coalition effects and externality effects. By …

from the standard assumption of joint welfare maximization of coalition members, implying ambitious abatement targets and …

effort and sabotage on a prize set by a principal) is extended to allow for coalitions. Using a sequential coalition … formation model with a coalition externality (larger coalitions make self-enforcing sabotage and synergy strategies more … effective), coalition members coordinate their sabotage-synergy activities. Our main result is a sufficient condition for the …

This paper compares stability of international environmental agreements for six different rules of coalition formation …

theory. Kyoto-Protocol, Cartel formation game, Non-cooperative game theory …

class of coalition formation games with externalities where agents' preferences depend solely on the coalition structures …